First Red Crossbill of the season!

Observation:


Ringing:

Today was pretty windy, so I had to keep an eye on the nets and unfortunately had to close several of them during the morning as they became too exposed.

The first few rounds were interesting, as the first bird I caught for the morning was a beautiful female Red Crossbill (Lille Korsnæb) for the season! This was a new bird species ringed for me, and I had a lot of fun studying her and getting some practice on steel rings.

Red (Common) Crossbill female (Lille Korsnæb)

This female showed a brood patch, which is a patch of unfeathered skin on the underbelly made to facilitate the incubation of eggs, providing a warm surface. It was nice to see that we have some breeding pairs of Crossbills around! I hope to see some of their young when the time comes.

I also had the chance of catching another Starling (Stær).

Starling (Stær) 

Little tern project:

There were no observations for the Little tern project this morning due to the heavy wind and the army training.

At the station : Clara Delahaye, Jorn de Jong & Alix Bortolussi